Everyone from Mobile, Alabama has a Mardi Gras story. In this second installment of the Mobile Writers Guild Pieces anthology series, the guild members share their stories-some true and some fictional, some funny, some touching, and some downright chilling. So don your beads and deck yourself out in purple, gold, and green, grab a MoonPie and relax while you experience a little bit of the Mobile Mardi Gras tradition.Laissez les bons temps rouler!
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES! Natural disasters-thunderstorms, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, blizzards, even pandemics like the one we're all sick of (pun intended). We on the Gulf Coast are unwilling experts on most of these, so in this fifth installment of the Mobile Writers Guild anthology series, our members give you their unique perspectives in the form of short stories, poems, and one play. So get out your emergency batteries, candles, Vienna sausages, and hoarded toilet paper, find a comfortable chair or hunker down in the bathtub, and escape for a while into some thrilling fiction. HOLD ON, IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!
What's so great about Indiana? Readers will explore the top ten sites in the Hoosier State including popular parks, exciting museums, and fascinating caves.
This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality. When the men of 1789 wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were thinking in terms of man the male, not man the species. But there were some men and women who interpreted it in terms of all humanity. The outrage of these individuals over what they perceived as a discrepancy between the principles and the practice of the Revolution motivated them to produce some of the most unhesitating declarations of sexual equality that had ever been seen in history. Dr. Proctor demonstrates, however, these claims of equality were not simply ignored; they were categorically rejected by the mainstream revolutionaries. The book examines the typical 18th-century concept of women as alien and in some ways inferior beings and traces the striking continuity between pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary thought on the subject. Against this background, Proctor addresses a number of important questions: How widespread was the support for a movement in favor of sexual equality? What was the response of the Revolution itself to demands for equal rights for women? How did the men of the French Revolution justify the contradiction between their suppression of women and the ideologies for which they claimed to be fighting? To arrive at the answers, an abundance of material produced in France in the 18th century is identified and analyzed, and cited in an extensive bibliography of original sources. What finally emerges is not only a clearer picture of the French Revolution and its attitude toward women, but a deeper understanding of the ambivalent attitudes toward women that still affect our society today. This book will be an important resource for courses in European history, the French Revolution, and women's studies, as well as a valuable reference for college, university, and public libraries.
Offering practical solutions to the problems associated with nursing care for HIV and AIDS patients, this resource is written by two highly experienced nurses from the context of both the healthcare and home environments. Designed as an easily accessible, quick-reference guide, topics include HIV and pregnancy, pediatric management, dealing with infections, and the principles of anti-retroviral therapy. Additional chapters include counseling and living positively with HIV and AIDS. The most recent research is presented and the interactive approach makes the task of putting theory into practice achievable.
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